On 18/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Andre Fischer wrote:
On 18.02.2013 01:15, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
[Andre] turn this into a switch that can be altered via Tools->Options
at runtime by the user. The user is ultimately the only person who knows
what the result of the power function in edge cases should be.
So let me suggest a solution ... this really needs to be a per-document
setting. ...
3) If we make it a runtime setting --- all legacy documents in ODF
format are evaluated according to the legacy mode. So no
compatibility break. Users have a choice for mode for all new
documents. All Excel format documents by default are in
Excel-compatibility mode.
This seems the only solution where we could have consensus. It is a
non-trivial enhancement but it has advantages.
Are you really suggesting to ship AOO on FreeBSD with different behavior
then on eg Windows? ... Please don't do that.
Yes, this should be avoided if possible. Let's try to avoid
inconsistencies across operating systems.
It *is* rude, really ... I *don't* care much what happens with the patch,
if it should be disabled or not, but I DO want respect. ...
I also want an assurance that this will never *ever* happen again (I am
talking about the revert, I guess bikesheds are unavoidable).
Symbolically reverting the patch again and then back out is something
that could have worked if done immediately, but I feel it would be
excessive at the moment. In any case, what I see more important, and
what I will do later this week, is to propose changes to
http://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#Veto that make it clear
that it is considered disrespectful or anti-social to revert someone
else's patches. This will allow better handling of similar problems in
future.
Regards,
Andrea.
